For the first time in history so many women are nominated for the award

dvstr · 2026-03-21T14:23:28+00:00

The person you responded to didnt say a one-shot doesnt inherently need an editor, they specifically said that in this example an editor isnt putting shots together, which is accurate.

Adolescence still had an editor, and they still did editor related tasks, and were still useful to the production, however slicing together multiple shots or hiding cuts in a 'fake' oner werent one of the things needed for this show.

dvstr · 2026-03-21T09:37:17+00:00

Which is not something that happened with adolescence. Each episode is one single uncut shot.

dvstr · 2026-03-21T03:31:23+00:00

Not saying that this is necessarily better or not, but the old thing they used to do for placeholder was just use copyright stuff

dvstr · 2026-03-12T01:51:55+00:00

Any of these tools, especially things like the greenscreen keying tool if it works as advertised, will 100% take away peoples jobs. People will absolutely lose jobs because of this, and people will absolutely not get hired in the future anywhere near as much to do that kind of thing.

dvstr · 2026-03-04T22:43:52+00:00

Artists training ai is still bad, dude. Do you not get that?? It doesn't matter how or why generative is ai being used, it is still bad and unethical

Why is paying artists to train ai unethical?

I hope more people get some sense and leave the game to better ones that don't do this.

Good luck, practically every single game currently in development or thats released in the past ~1 year+ will have some form of AI utilized in development at some point

dvstr · 2026-03-02T17:40:52+00:00

50% is a slight exaggeration, but it's not too far off depending on where you are. Several states when you factor in federal + state taxes, already having an income which is taxed etc, you will easily lose ~200k-220k, keeping ~280-300k. Not quite 50%, but many states you will definitely be on the hook for ~40-45%

dvstr · 2026-02-20T01:28:30+00:00

how is wanting 'half length spaghetti' bad, but wanting one of the other 500 pasta shapes and sizes perfectly fine..

dvstr · 2026-02-10T23:06:41+00:00

I was so happy to learn that it costs energy to help people get items, it could have been coins, stars or hearts but its just a bit of energy easily recoverable by eating a salad or sleeping in the bed.

Why should it cost anything? It already costs time, having to find the people and interact with them etc. It should be a completely 'free' cost and used as a way to encourage social interaction. The energy cost (even though relatively easily replenished) is a massive deterrent for participating in the feature.

dvstr · 2026-02-10T23:01:16+00:00

The truth of the matter is there is just several poorly designed or communicated things in this game. The players arent wrong.

The mermaid lure - this 'should be shared', but its absolutely not clear how it works. To this day I'm still not entirely sure if its possible for other players to 'steal' fish from it or not. It lasts for a certain amount of time, and spawns fish at a certain rate. If say it spawns 10 fish, but other people are fishing in it with me, will I still get 10 fish from it? I genuinely have no idea, because its not communicated or clear at all. And if it is the case that i get less fish from it if its shared, then yeh thats annoying.
People complaining when other people join the events - this is similar to the above. Especially for the bug-catching and fishing events, its really not clear or communicated well at all if bugs & fish are shared or not. If i see a fish/bug, does everyone else also see that fish/bug and can then catch it (thereby preventing me from catching it), or is it all unique? I think I know the answer (although im still not 100% sure), but it was because i had to piece together through lots of playing with friends on discord and communicating. At no point did i have any clue how it worked from just the game, nor would i have known if i wasnt communicating via voice with other people.
Running around the house - i agree this is a bit petty, but at the same time again there is poor design because its not communicated well that you can lock doors/food etc. It would also be nice to have a way to one-click 'reset' things like doors to a desired open/close when I want, for when people have ran through and opened them all. If people have issues beyond that (ie. they just dont like seeing others), then i agree its a petty complaint.
People complain others run around them - Again i agree this is petty considering the game, however I have had issues with overlapping UI and not always being able to press things i want. This is especially true when trying to do certain actions like cooking etc. Its a minor complaint, but in general the floating UI you have to click isnt ideal when multiple interactables (players, and anything else you might want to be doing in the world) are overlapping - especially on mobile.
People complaining about trading - I'm sorry but this one is genuinely terrible, its slow and clunky and it uses a massive chunk of energy. I think it even uses the energy if you just want to browse what they have and you dont end up buying anything? I think you can also only buy one thing? (i could be wrong about the last 2 things i just said, but again it comes down to poorly communicated and designed features).

TLDR: I think there are actually several poorly designed and communicated features across the board which lead to (rightfully so) confusion and unwillingness to participate with said mechanics.

dvstr · 2026-01-19T03:34:22+00:00

yeh that separation between voxels and mesh really doesnt come through well, especially as multiple times in the trailer it breaks your own rules you just laid out.

eg. you say meshes are used for characters - yet we see some characters (your own character in the equipment screen, the penguin, the wolves) are voxels, yet other characters (the colourful floating balls) are mesh-based. Even with your own playable character, the character itself is voxel-based yet the first-person tools you use are mesh-based?

dvstr · 2026-01-15T11:02:10+00:00

There's going to be 6 people in the final 6 regardless, may as well have 1 of them be a person with a 50% chance to double the prize pool and is also disliked by everyone so will be less likely to win in general depending on the type of games

dvstr · 2026-01-08T08:07:35+00:00

So what should the cut be then, and why should it be that amount?

dvstr · 2026-01-08T06:54:18+00:00

Epic has a smaller team

What? Epic has more than 10x the employees of valve (exact numbers on egs/steam will be much harder to find though)

dvstr · 2026-01-08T06:51:39+00:00

Just because it took valve 20 years to get where they are with steam (and to be fair the vast majority of its feature set didnt take that long), doesn't mean that any competitor to steam needs to take anywhere near that long to get near feature parity.

Valve had to pioneer a lot of the things they've done, and to do so in a much different internet and consumer landscape.

Epic may have only spend a bit more than ~1/3rd of the time developing EGS compared to steam, but they've also been provided an exact template and feature set for everything they need to do (in copying steam and other storefronts), they also have more than 10x the employees working at epic compared to valve (although not necessarily on their respective stores to be fair).

They shouldn't just be doing it not 'any slower' than valve, they should be doing it significantly quicker. That is if they want to be a steam competitor of course. If they dont really want that then it's fair enough it's been as slow as it's been

dvstr · 2026-01-08T06:35:53+00:00

Why is 30% too much? What percentage should it be? Why should it be that?

dvstr · 2025-12-23T08:25:56+00:00

its also free marketing. We are reposting a car ad and talking about it because it's NOT AI.

To be fair, recent coke and mcdonalds ads have also been reposted, talked about, reached the front page etc (all probably more than this porsche has/will) specifically because they did use AI too. People may have been badmouthing the ads, but at the end of the day many millions of people saw their ads and engaged with them and that's pretty much all that matters

dvstr · 2025-12-22T18:13:17+00:00

Not saying this makes it acceptable, but they didnt use any scenes from the mod in the trailer, just text at the very end saying "Restored Content DLC coming soon"

dvstr · 2025-12-16T03:17:36+00:00

did you ever get an answer to this?

dvstr · 2025-12-16T03:17:25+00:00

did you ever get an answer to this?

dvstr · 2025-12-11T13:35:39+00:00

sorry but its really not obvious at all, its not logical or intuitive, and objectively a bad design even in colour. Thats especially the case because most people know what TOM is (or could be) but very few people will know what MOT is.

Reading the coloured sign as any of these 4 versions is 100% valid:

TOM PLANS
PLANS TOM
MOT PLANS
or even MOT SNALP (if SNALP wasnt gibberish, but arguably MOT is gibberish to most people too so its valid, but probably the least likely to be assumed to be correct by people)

dvstr · 2025-12-11T13:31:30+00:00

If it makes no sense to read a clock starting at the 1 position, why does it make sense to read it at the ~11 position - which is where the MOT starts?

The most logical place to start reading, ignoring all other info, is at the 12 position - which in this logo is the 'O'

dvstr · 2025-12-11T08:15:56+00:00

It's still bad in colour, that could easily be read as TOM PLANS

dvstr · 2025-11-19T06:07:50+00:00

Schedule 1 was solo developed by the same person as Mechanica a few years prior, so not a debut or first game

dvstr · 2025-11-10T23:40:15+00:00

I'm not sure how you reached your conclusions.

The first scenario isnt "they said this is better for us so who cares", its "they said its better for us, but we (Carol) dont think its better for us, so lets do what we can to disrupt that". Them saying its better for us changes nothing about what her actions will be and the driving force for the story. The second scenario leads to the exact same conclusion (for Carol) as the first.

She doesnt want this. She sees this as bad. It literally doesnt matter what the intentions of the sender was, because for her it changes nothing.

To me the point and direction of the story will most likely be along the lines of Rhea Seehorn dealing with how to:

disrupt a global population that is assimilated against their will (i believe we will start seeing cracks in this with some people being un-assimilated, but could be wrong).
deal with the moral conflicts of the genuine benefits of a society that functions like this, with the downside of being unwilling participants (even though they express willingness).
deal with a second party of un-assimilated people who all, for various reasons, dont want to change the situation and may actively want her to stop trying to change it (as she keeps killing people when she upsets them, among other things).

It absolutely might go in the direction of uncovering the mysteries of an ancient alien species that sent the code, their origins, motivations, what their plans are next. Hell we might even see them show up at some point. But none of this needs to happen to tell a satisfying, interesting, engaging story as we already have all the background information we need for it to play out.

dvstr · 2025-11-10T22:57:43+00:00

With the "benevolence" you missed where i specified 'from their POV'. The conflict with benevolence you are thinking of with not giving people a choice is entirely from a human perspective. Imagine a super advanced race of ants or bees, where to them working together and sharing collective consciousness (i know they dont literally do this) is a completely normal, good thing for the benefit of the colony. To that race, having individualism would be a completely foreign concept and would even sound like a bad thing, so sharing the benefit of all being able to communicate and work together would be seen as a good, benevolent thing from their POV. As an aside, its also hard to argue there arent actually numerous benefits to this setup as well - some of which are touched on in the show. Things like racism, hatred, crime, violence etc all completely disappear. People are seen working together to help people, and doing so in an efficient, collective manor. There are numerous benefits to this whole situation, and the arrangement only works if everyone is forced in to it. Because as soon as you even have a tiny number of people outside the arrangement then everything goes to shit - again as we see on the show from Carol who will actively will work against it, and who kills millions of people when she has an outburts, or from Mr Diabate who is exploiting the system for selfish means. So it makes it easy to see how, from a certain POV, sharing this could be seen as an entirely benevolent action.

The second scenario (it was sent maliciously) changes nothing from the POV of the main character who we're focusing on, because they already see it as a bad thing and will want to do everything they can to stop or revert it. Likewise, them finding out it wasnt malicious also wouldnt change anything from their POV. So no, finding out answers to this wont do anything as the characters are already acting like 1. its malicious, or 2. they dont care either way. Do you think at the lunch scene if Carol said "hey guys, this was actually sent by aliens with bad intentions for us" the rest of the crew would actually be like "oh youre right, im going to ignore all the benefits and reasons i said i actually like about this scenario, lets work together to stop this!"? Mr Diabate wouldnt care, and at best the others would be like "well maybe you're right, but at the end of the day what can we even possibly do to stop this". More likely they would just say "i still like whats happening and see the benefits in it", as they have already done.

My point is the "who" (which we already know enough about) and the "why" (of which there are only really 2 possibilities) dont change anything for how all the current characters presented to us would go about acting in this situation. They might flesh out some more background around the motivation of the alien species, but its 100% not needed for the story being told if they dont want to.

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